WHAT MATTERS MOST: Lay ground for growth
Barbados needs a viable economy to be able to deliver a sustainable social programme. It is, however, clear that the option of industrialisation of the kind contemplated in the past is beyond us and so...
View ArticleSheep breeding boost likely
Barbados may be a few months away from an enhanced artificial insemination programme involving local Black Belly Sheep. Expert in the field of artificial insemination, Dr Raymundo Rangel, a professor...
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It may have ended in controversy last year when the Barbados Tridents defeated the Amazon Warriors by eight runs in the final, but the excitement and glamour of last year’s Caribbean Premier League...
View ArticleDelta Launches New Nonstop Service to Barbados
As part of Barbados' new tourism strategy and growth, the Caribbean island's new tourism organization -- Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. -- has announced new twice weekly nonstop service with Delta Air...
View ArticleExpo-sing a sports miscalculation
BARBADOS’ sporting arena is filled with individuals like Randy Harris, Sydney Lopez, Kathy Harper-Hall, Cammie Burke, Derrick Garrett, Charles Lovell, Sonia Oneal, Annette Beckett, James Marshall,...
View ArticleBarbados fight back from follow-on to stun Guyana
Veerasammy Permaul's 12-wicket match haul went to waste for Guyana as Barbados pulled off an improbable defense of a fourth-innings target of 69 to win by two runs at Providence Stadium in the third...
View ArticleNew LIAT flights between Barbados and Guyana
The three additional services between Barbados and Ogle will bring LIAT's total number of flights to Guyana to ten per week. LI 391 is scheduled to depart Barbados at 8:50 a.m., arriving at Ogle at...
View ArticleBARBADOS IS LEAST CORRUPT COUNTRY IN THE CARIBBEAN
Barbados is the least corrupt country in the Caribbean and among the top-20 cleanest countries in the world, according to Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2014 which was...
View ArticleWHAT MATTERS MOST: Lay ground for growth
Barbados needs a viable economy to be able to deliver a sustainable social programme. It is, however, clear that the option of industrialisation of the kind contemplated in the past is beyond us and so...
View ArticleDelta Launches New Nonstop Service to Barbados
As part of Barbados' new tourism strategy and growth, the Caribbean island's new tourism organization -- Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. -- has announced new twice weekly nonstop service with Delta Air...
View Article$19.2m dip in imports
Barbados’ continued heavy dependence on imported items – especially petroleum products – has sustained its $2 billion trade deficit with the rest of the world in the first nine months of this year. ...
View ArticleDelta resumes direct flights to Barbados from US
Delta offers twice-weekly nonstop service from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and from Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to Grantley Adams International Airport in...
View ArticleInniss: Embrace foreign investment
“We also have somewhat of a furniture industry here in Barbados, and even though we cannot compete in terms of prices, we still offer high quality furniture that goes from one generation to the next. I...
View ArticleEast Indian community gives back
TO MARK Barbados' 48th year of Independence and in recognition of Parliament's 375th anniversary, members of this country's East Indian community have presented Parliament with a framed photograph of...
View ArticleBarbados and TT sign fishing protocol
Barbados and TT have signed a protocol on common procedures relating to the arrest of crew, or detention of fishing vessels, in each other country's territorial waters. “The protocol seeks to put in...
View ArticleInniss calls for 'two-way street'
This was made clear by Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development Donville Inniss as he officially opened American furniture company Ashley Furniture...
View ArticleActuary: Work longer
Herbert, who is principal at Eckler Partners Limited Barbados, was speaking at Hilton Barbados Resort during a panel discussion at the Caribbean Actuarial Association's 24th annual conference. “The...
View ArticleBank donates to Salvation Army, Poppy League
THE BARBADOS POPPY League and Salvation Army have each received yet another welcome contribution from CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank which will positively impact the lives of Barbadians in...
View ArticleAS I SEE THINGS: Much to be grateful for
On November 30, 2014 Barbados celebrates 48 years as an independent nation from Great Britain, moving the country within a mere two years of that critical milestone of five decades as a sovereign state.
View ArticleDelta resumes direct flights to Barbados from US
Delta offers twice-weekly nonstop service from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and from Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to Grantley Adams International Airport in...
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